Aemilia
159 Aemilia (A876 BA)
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Physical data
- Diameter
- 125.236 km
- Rotation period
- 24.476 hours
- Albedo
- 0.064
- Absolute magnitude H
- 8.27 mag
- Spectral type (Tholen)
- C
- Spectral type (SMASS)
- Ch
Orbit
- Orbit class (JPL)
- MBA — Main-belt Asteroid
- Semi-major axis
- 3.11 AU
- Eccentricity
- 0.0992
- Inclination
- 6.11°
- Perihelion distance
- 2.8 AU
- Aphelion distance
- 3.42 AU
- Orbital period
- 2,000 days
- Perihelion passage
- JD 2460412.234
- Earth MOID
- 1.82 AU
Earth approach
- Potentially hazardous (PHA)
- No
- Near-Earth object (NEO)
- No
In everyday life
- About 125 km across — 31.3% of the 400 km Seoul–Busan expressway.
- One orbit takes about 2,000 Earth days (about 5.5 years).
- Sunlight needs about 26 minutes to reach it on average (semi-major axis 3.1 AU) — versus about 8 min 19 s to Earth.
Worked out from this object's official values.